Exposing the underbelly of Armstrongism in all of its wacky glory! Nothing you read here is made up. What you read here is the up to date face of Herbert W Armstrong's legacy. It's the gritty and dirty behind the scenes look at Armstrongism as you have never seen it before!
With all the new crazy self-appointed Chief Overseers, Apostles, Prophets, Pharisees, legalists, and outright liars leading various Churches of God today, it is important to hold these agents of deception accountable.
Herbert Armstrong's Tangled Web of Corrupt Leaders
Exit and Support Network has more up on Cal Culpepper, one of the more abusive Philadelphia Church of God ministers.
Cal Culpepper Has Destroyed Many Lives and Families: February 9, 2024 Cal Culpepper is a very evil and arrogant man. His wickedness has destroyed many lives and families. Anyone that has personally dealt with him or ministers like him in this group have been left damaged. His dirty deeds are kept secret from members, as I am quite sure that there are great offenses that Flurry himself is unaware of. Cal is a narcissistic sociopath and Flurry allows it, giving him great power, materialism, trust and authority. The members fear him. He is a demon possessed Diotrephes. One day coming, he and the PCG band will be dried up, withered in time by the hand of God himself, as membership continues to steadily decline. God is watching. He will judge him, Flurry, and his branch. The vengeance solely is His. The true and only absolute Hope in our lives is in Jesus Christ our Savior, our King. –B. O.
Here are previous stories we ran about the abusive twit:
Ryan Malone from the Philadelphia Church of God cult based in Edmond, Oklahoma has an article geared towards the singles in PCG and how their potential dating outside the church can pollute the pure seed of the church culture.
Anyone who has been part of the Armstrongist church culture knows that the church has set itself up as the pure one true faith on earth today that practices 1st century Christianity and has restored all truth to humankind. Being that they are soooooo special, it is vitally important that their "truth" not be watered down by dating or marrying outside the church and ultimately polluting the cleanliness of the church culture. After all, anyone outside the PCG or COG is unclean.
PCG then drags up a story from Hebrew Scriptures about the 5 daughters of Zeldophehad and the land they inherit from their father at his death. Moses took the situation to God asking for an answer:
Mahlah, No’ah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah were five sisters about to enter the Promised Land. The fact that they were all daughters made their family situation unique. It also puts them in a rare dating situation.
See, they were about to inherit land on behalf of their late father Zelophehad, the youngest of Manasseh’s great-grandsons. In Number 26, Moses was conducting a census not far from the border crossing into Canaan. None of those in the original census at Sinai nearly 40 years earlier were still alive except Joshua, Caleb and Moses (who would die not long after this). Numbers 27 records how these five sisters asked Moses to give them a plot of land on behalf of their father, since land inheritance was dictated as generally going through sons. When Moses took the case to God, God told him, “The daughters of Zelophehad speak right: thou shalt surely give them a possession of an inheritance among their father’s brethren; and thou shalt cause the inheritance of their father to pass unto them. And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a man die, and have no son, then ye shall cause his inheritance to pass unto his daughter. And if he have no daughter, then ye shall give his inheritance unto his brethren” (verses 7-9).
Then, just like today in Church of God land, the money-hungry greedy leaders got all pissy that Zelophehad's daughters might incredulously marry foreigners! Oh, the humanity! They quickly saw the wealth slipping out of their control. Leave it to the Manasshites to get their robes all in a twist:
But a little while later, another question became remarkably obvious (Numbers 36:1-4). Tribal leaders from Manasseh realized these young girls would soon start marrying, and they considered what would happen if they married men from other Israelite tribes. (Genealogies show that inter-tribal marriages were common.) Once these women had children, if their husbands were from other tribes, the Zelophehad plot in the province of Manasseh would go to the heirs of these other tribes—which would forever confuse the tribal boundaries.
Moses, unable to make a decision gain, gore to God for more answers:
Under God’s direction, Moses said: “This is the thing which the Lord doth command concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, Let them marry to whom they think best; only to the family of the tribe of their father shall they marry” (verse 6). The next three verses show the intent and precedent of this ruling. It applied to all five daughters, not just the firstborn. All five would inherit and share a sizable plot in Canaan. Their five husbands would work the land, and all the children growing up there would be of the same tribe.
Malone then adds this?
A principle emerges that applies particularly to singles in God’s Church.
Uh, no it doesn't! What Malone is starting to do is to control his readers just like the PCG does in every aspect of their lives. Even in dating, the needs of the church come first!
Typically, a son in ancient Israel didn’t need to be “tribe conscious” when dating, but girls in a family without sons did. We don’t date with the same tribal restrictions today, of course. But singles in God’s small and scattered faithful end-time remnant can probably relate to Zelophehad’s daughters because they too have relatively limited dating options.
Those limitations put more positive pressure on each single to get involved. Think of the needs our Church’s size creates—needs requiring everyone to step forward and participate.
He then has to drag Dead Herb into the mix, after all, everything thing Herb uttered or wrote down is now sacred scripture.
Herbert W. Armstrong described this principle in Mystery of the Ages: “All these various members God has set in his Church are interdependent—mutually dependent on one another. They form a team—an organized spiritual organism—utterly different from any secular and worldly organization!”
All members of the church need to suffer together as one (overused phrase) spiritual organism. As the Philadelphia Church of God implodes and more and more people are leaving, including the younger members, the dating field shrinks and shrinks. The more it shrinks the more the members need to stay inside the church to preserve the purity of the church and its culture.
Malone continues:
The smaller the community, the more pronounced this mutual dependence becomes.
Consider this hypothetical scenario for Zelophehad’s daughters, who were essentially told, Marry whom you want, as long as he’s from Manasseh.
What happens if the men in that particular tribe aren’t really interested or, worse, have an aversion to marriage and family? What happens if they don’t involve themselves in the dating “scene,” or make themselves available for a singles “program.” What happens if there is a Manasseh Singles Mixer, and all Zelophehad’s daughters show up, but only one Manassite male comes?
What happens to the women in that tribe if most of their options are withdrawn? And what happens if—while the Manassite men are showing no interest—men from other tribes are giving these girls all kinds of attention? This is going to create problems.
This isn’t just to pick on the men. There are cases where guys can feel similarly limited because their sisters in God’s Church barely notice them. Then if those men receive all kinds of attention from girls in a worldly workplace, this will also create problems!
PCG is pretty much like the Living Church of God in that both sets of members can never seem to do anything right.
The PCG and the COG as a whole have had a terrible retention problem with it comes to younger members of the church. The dating pool in most COGs is so small and many times filled with some of the most lecherous men and women imaginable, which greatly reduces the dating field and causes people to leave and find real love OUTSIDE the church culture. The problem the churches have with that is that the income they would make off these people has slipped out of their hands. That's why they need to control them as much as possible. They are just like the Manasshites mentioned above, all hot and bothered about land and money going to someone else.
Anyone who dares think outside the Fluorite culture is immediately backsliding and in COG culture this is anathema against God!
This psalm shows God’s efforts to include those who otherwise may not feel like they fit in. But He also gave us all free moral agency, and we must do our part. The more limited the options are in anything, the more that those involved have a duty to include themselves. Single-Minded for God brings out: “As we draw closer to God, we will inevitably be drawing closer to others of like mind. Conversely, if we drift away from God, we will begin to forsake others.”
In the final phrase of verse 6, “the rebellious dwell in a dry land,” the word for rebellious is more often used in the Old Testament to describe withdrawing. In Hosea 4:16, it describes “backsliding,” trying to slide out of the yoke. Zechariah 7:11 and Nehemiah 9:29 describe similar imagery: pulling away or withdrawing the shoulder. Some can interpret God’s guidance as a trap and try to wiggle out of it.
Why is it that everyone in COGland is always in rebellion? Why do they go after the heathens?
Yes, we each work out our own salvation. We each have a personal one-on-one relationship with our Father in Heaven. But that process and that relationship links us to a community—to other relationships, and to a team effort. How much do you engage with that community?
God is “yoking” us to a common effort. If we try to slide out, we actually yoke ourselves to more dangerous things. 2 Corinthians 6:14-16 says, “Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols?”
God commanded Israel not to intermarry with the heathen nations around them and similarly restricts those in the Church regarding nonbelievers. We don’t date or form substantial relationships outside the body of Christ. Verses 17-18 explain that God has begotten us as sons and daughters. He has put us in an incredibly special household!
There are more heathens in the PCG than there are outside it, but that is another story. This is just more cultic mind control to make members feel special and called out above those dirty nasty uncultured heathens of the world. Only those of the true faith are pure in God's sight.
Malone then concluded with a heavy millstone placed on his reader's shoulders. It is THEIR responsibility and their fault if anything goes wrong in the church.
Consider also: We are not in this Family of God just for what we can get out of it. We have probably heard a number of times that we are not called out of this world now just to “get into the Kingdom.” We are to help Jesus Christ serve, teach and save the rest of humanity. But if we’re not careful, we can have a “get into the Kingdom” approach into our involvement with the Church.
We can decide whether to “take advantage” of an opportunity based on whether it’s best for us, while overlooking that Church members are mutually dependent. Maybe we need to be involved because it’s best for others. Others might need you.
And here’s the thing about mutual dependence: By serving others’ needs, you serve your own! Remember Paul’s admonition in Hebrews 10:24-25: “And let us consider [understand] one another to provoke unto love and to good works [in other words, to provoke someone to love, you need to understand what their needs are]. Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.” We need to be assembling together. And consider the word for “exhorting,” the Greek parakaleo—meaning to beseech, comfort, or call near.
This verse is describing people mutually dependent on one another, who are present at occasions because they have to go, they need to go, and they are needed there. The Greek for word “more” in the phrase “so much the more” can mean more willingly.
The success of the Church’s singles program is largely in the hands of our singles.
It is all the church's singles fault if the program does not work, never the idiot leadership of the church. Never!
Verses 32-33 admonish us to remember what we were willing to put up with in our “first love”—when we became “companions of them that were so used.” We found people we’d describe with the phrase: We’re in this together.
“Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul” (verses 38-39). We either live by faith, or we draw back—or pull away the shoulder—to destruction.
The word for “draw back” is used in Galatians 2:12 to describe what the Apostle Peter did in a moment of weakness. This is recounting a time when God had just invited physical Gentiles into the body of Christ, but Peter was still concerned what fellow Jews would think if they saw him eating with Gentiles. It says he “withdrew and separated himself,” adding that he did this out of fear of what others thought. How often do we withdraw ourselves for the same reason?
That angry vengeful god of Armstrongism is always out to get members.
There is more to the story of Zelophehad’s daughters. Once in the Promised Land, just before Joshua divvied up the land, these sisters came to remind him what Moses had decided about their unique situation (Joshua 17:1-6).
That passage says Manasseh got 10 portions of land west of Jordan, and it was impacted by this unique circumstance. So they were still single at this time. That means someone added this detail to Numbers 36 after Moses died. Verses 10-11 read: “Even as the Lord commanded Moses, so did the daughters of Zelophehad: For Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married unto their father’s brothers’ [relatives’] sons.”
They dated whom they were supposed to, and there were obviously men of Manasseh eager to date and marry them!
Verse 12 confirms: “And they were married into the families of the sons of Manasseh the son of Joseph, and their inheritance remained in the tribe of the family of their father.” The fact that the land remained there means at least some (if not all) of them had children.
Yes, some have fairly limited dating options within this “Church tribe.” Yes, even beyond dating, the Church in general is a little flock and tiny remnant, requiring more of each of us to get involved.
We are not here for what we can get out of this opportunity. Yes, we have needs. But remember: By serving others’ needs, we actually serve our own. That is what it means to be “interdependent—mutually dependent on one another.”
Yes, boys and girls, date within your tribe. Keep it special while you lead miserable lives unfulfilled.
More asshatery from the Philadelphia Church of God cult and Lil'Joel Hilliker:
Get a load of this absolute nonsense:
Mr. Flurry says, “We in God’s Church should radiate something entirely different! I believe that, in a general way, we may be able to determine how much star quality and brightness we will have in the future by how much our face shines today in happiness and joy. God wants to make you happy. He has commanded that you be happy! And He has instructed us in exactly how to achieve that: ‘If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.’” You are truly happy when you live God’s law of love—the give way. That is what makes us happy!
This is just more of the continuing nonsense that PCG is reenforcing in members in that they are all Royally here on earth and depending on how well they keep the law and other non essential things will determine how big their royal status will be in the kingdom.
Ron Fraser wrote in a 2011 Philadelphia News article: “To aspire to the highest standard of elegance in personal presentation, general bearing, manners, speech and the appreciation of the finer things in life is a requirement of royalty.” Royalty in this world receives specific training in how to present themselves. They represent the royal crown and must be aware of this standard as they interact with other people. You must think on this as a representative of the new throne of David. We are a part of a royal culture—we are royals!
Some will be greater royals like Lil'Stevie and King Daddy will be. Church members faces will never shine as bright as the faces of these two blithering idiots or those in leadership positions on the cult compound.
1 Corinthians 15:41 reads, “There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for one star differeth from another star in glory.” In John’s Gospel: The Love of God, Gerald Flurry explains, “Some stars are greater and more luminous than others. God really wants us to have a lot of glory! He wants you to have the most ‘star glory’ possible when you are born into the God Family.
Did you know your Royal Report Card is keeping track of you shiny happy face? So, don't be a grumpy, otherwise you will get a failing grade:
“But even today, we should shine with a certain glory. Our faces should shine with happiness!” If “happiness on your face” appeared on your report card, what grade would you be getting? This is important to having a royal personality.
If you are unhappy or a grumpy, then you are a sinner!
Mr. Flurry continues: “Isaiah 3:9 describes how, because of Israel’s sins, ‘The shew of their countenance doth witness against them ….’ Look around, and you see many unhappy people in this world—people in the bonds of sin.” Can you see that? There are a lot of “stars” in this world—actors, models, influencers—who are physically beautiful, but do they radiate joy? They majority of people look unhappy, and this is caused by sin.
How can anyone who is a member of controlling Armstrongite cults truly be happy, especially those in the Philadelphia Church of God, Restored Church of God and even the improperly need "continuing" Church of "god"?
The truly happy people are those that have LEFT Armstrongism!
When it comes to Armstrongism, if you see it obsessing on a certain topic it is almost a sure bet that its leadership or members are having issues with that subject. That is how the ball has bounced in Armstrongism for decades. The louder they shout, the more they are involved in it.
ylie’s $13 hourly wage wasn’t making ends meet. Looking for extra money, she eventually signed up for a role in a pornographic film, earning $1,000 in a day. But her family, friends, employer and small-town acquaintances found out about it. With her reputation ruined, how did Kylie move forward with her life?
She moved away and became a pornographic model full time. Now she operates an OnlyFans account and makes $19,000 per month selling pictures and videos of herself. “I’m proud that I changed my life,” she told the Toronto Sun. “Everyone my age has thought of doing OnlyFans; I was just brave enough.” She still avoids going back to her hometown, saying, “While they are close-minded, judging and miserable, I’m getting rich and having fun.”
Sadly, a woman selling sex for money is nothing new. Thanks to the digital age, though, these activities are no longer limited to dark alleyways. Prostitution and pornography are available to every home and device with Internet. Digital prostitution is one of the most profitable businesses in the world. The OnlyFans website is at the leading edge of on-demand digital prostitution.
This exposes one of the greatest scourges of the modern age: the widespread supply and demand for illicit sex. Our Judeo-Christian culture is being replaced by an OnlyFans culture. During this titanic cultural shift, there is one question no one wants to ask: What does the God of the Bible think about it?
I can almost guarantee that those Herbert Armstrong College students who secretly have smartphones have now been titillated into checking out the OnlyFans site.
Blondeau continues:
OnlyFans is an online subscription-based service started in 2016. Users gain access to content by buying a subscription or paying tips. The creators get 80 percent of the money, and 20 percent goes to OnlyFans. Primarily used by pornographers and models, it exploded in popularity during the pandemic. Currently it has 3 million creators and over 220 million subscribers. Seventy percent of the content is pornographic in nature, including nearly all of the top earners. Since 2016, OnlyFans has paid creators over $10 billion.
Its ubiquity is shocking. It was the 25th-most visited website in 2023. The site gets 3.8 billion visits per year, which amount to 320 million monthly visits. Most of this traffic is funneled from social media sites like X, Facebook, Reddit, TikTok and Youtube. Many “creators” preview their content on social media to try to lure users to pay for the full version.
Every day, 500,000 new users sign up. The average age is between 35 and 44. “OnlyFans followers are predominantly male, owning 69 percent of the platform’s user base,” wrote TechJury. “The women occupy the remaining 31 percent. These men are usually white, married and identify as heterosexuals, bisexual or pansexuals. In stark contrast, the opposite is true for the creators: 70 percent of content creators identify as females. This is due to their greater success rate, earning an average of 78 percent more than their male counterparts.”
This has to really infuriate the PCG and Gerald Flurry to see all this money flowing into a website that they cannot get their hands on. It makes more in one day moneywise than Flurry rakes in in a year. Imagine how many more planes they could buy with that money or more money they could put into idiotic Irish dance stage shows about Old Testament prophets or useless topics like coronation chairs. The lost opportunities are endless!
So what is the solution to this fascination with OnlyFans? These people need to read Herbert's crazy book on sex! Herb had no idea his Missing Dimension in Sex book could solve such problems in 2024 if people would only read it! If they don't, that ‘Unseen Strong Hand From Someplace’will spank their bottoms!
“Since it is a basic truism that a solid family structure is the foundational bulwark of any stable and permanent society, this fact means only one thing—civilization as we know it is on the way down—and out—unless that great ‘Unseen Strong Hand From Someplace’ soon intervenes and saves today’s sick society.” The late Herbert W. Armstrong wrote those words in The Missing Dimension in Sex in 1981, a textbook that explains God’s laws on sex, marriage and family.
At the same time as Blondeau's article came out, those fun boys at the cult compound reposted one of Gerald Flurry's articles from 2019, A Bigger Pastime Than Sportswhere he flogs indignantly about the easy access to porn on computers and cell phones. I have to say, those guys in Oklahoma sure must be busy checking out those sites if having the Grand Poobah weigh in on the topic so much. But, this is Armstrongism after all and SEX is as important as Satan is. Both get discussed more than Jesus ever has been.
Flurry writes:
Every second, over 28,000 Internet users are looking at pornography. The Worldwide Web is swimming in it.
Thirty-five years ago, the porn industry in the United States brought in $75 million in revenue. That in itself is shameful. But thanks to the Internet, it has since exploded! It is impossible to get a completely accurate estimate, but the numbers range from $10 billion to $97 billion! As much as we love our sports, we don’t love them as much as we love pornography! Major League Baseball makes only $10.3 billion. The National Football League generates $8.2 billion in income. The National Basketball Association generates $7.4 billion. Pornography is probably at least double the nba—perhaps many times greater—and without any of the prime-time advertising, big-time merchandising or the massive arenas.
It must frost Flurry's butt to see all that money flowing into porn when he deserves it all.
A little down the article he says this:
America spews this filth out into the world. The United States is part of the descendants of Israel. Who are some of the other descendants? Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the Jewish nation—all leaders in sins like pornography! Our nations are the only ones that have a history with God. They are supposed to set an example of God’s way of life. Instead, they are doing the opposite.
The spiritual filth that Flurry spews into the world is far more damaging than the porn will ever be. The spiritual health of seeking Christians and of his members has been destroyed by lies and false doctrines. Broken families, marriages, suicides, sexual assaults, and more hide under the dirty clothing of the Philadelphia Church of God.
Do you realize what is really inspiring all this family-destroying smut? The Bible tells us: It is Satan the devil. He is very active, and he is glutting us with these horrible influences. We have turned to the devil’s way, and we are about to see where that leads us. We are being entrapped in sins that wreck our families and fill them with hatred and lies and cheating—the opposite of the character of God. The Bible prophesies that Satan’s violent anger will culminate in the horrific Great Tribulation
The PCG long ago went over to the dark side with its aberrant doctrines and teachings. The satan they decry has had full reign in the PCG for decades. Until they clean their own abhorrent house of filth they have no right to be lecturing the world on the things they think is wrong.
When it comes to the Philadelphia Church of God and its members it is all about control. Every minuscule thing members might do is under scrutiny by the spiritual deviates in control of the church. It is particularly worrisome for younger church members. Many are refusing to let the church dictate what they can and can't do and are leaving the church, others are like pigs at a slop trough and will gorge themselves on any and everything the leaders say as if it is directly from some god.
Ryan Malone, who has his own questionable issues, seems to think he is an authority on dating. God forbid though if you use your phone to text someone, particularly if you use a smartphone. PCG is against smartphones because they allow members easy access to articles and dissent sites condemning the abuses in the PCG. However, this ban is only for members and not the HQ leaders who all have their smartphones.
Exit and Support Network has a letter from one of their readers telling about Malone's recent article on dating expectations:
“What Counts as a Date?” and listed things such as texting or chatting and how there are things you “really shouldn’t share at all.” To give all this more validity he brought that Prophet (GF) into the picture and said: “Pastor General Gerald Flurry would like it stressed that texting is not a good way to date and can be a dangerous way to form a relationship.”
“The dopamine hits that come from sending and receiving texts can stir up thoughts and emotions that are problematic when trying to build wholesome and solidly founded friendships … [it] tends to draw you away from interacting with and building actual relationships in the real world around you.”
He instructed how (in the case there were not a lot of “available singles”) it would be wise not to text with anymore frequency than you might encounter someone on the Armstrong College Campus as a student. It shouldn’t be anything “lengthy or deep” and having a longer conversation over a meal at Sabbath services is “simply simply impossible to replicate through texting.” He said “e-mails and chatting—shouldn’t be used for dating.” His admonition was that they shouldn’t fool themselves into thinking this is not a date, because before they realize it, they have “BUILT SOMETHING. And they’ve built it on a shaky foundation, through a decidedly superficial form of communication.”
Some of this “advice” seems to be in contrast to a 2013 article1 found on PCG’s church site that states: “Use online dating as a tool to get to know someone in a unique way, and you will overcome many social barriers in your life.” And this was written by a single in PCG who was “dating” a lady through e-mail (later Skype) who said their relationship had “been built almost entirely online, across an ocean!” Of course, it was brought out that their “dating” was all under the direction of their local ministers.
Why does so much of Armstrongism devolve into sex? If only they talked about Jesus as much as they do sex-related topics they might be happier people.
One thing is for sure when it comes to Armstrongism, it is a "dope-mine" of some of the biggest controlling idiots the world has ever seen.
Ever since Herbert Armstrong got his sacred knickers in a twist with Church of God 7th Day, the Church of God Armstrongist movement has been ridiculing other religions and especially Christians as fake, so-called, pretend Christians, deceived, satan inspired, pagans, and more. However, for COG members labeling them as Sardis or Laodicean carries the most weight.
For every Church of God leader, from Bob Thiel, Ron Weinland, Dave Pack, Gerald Flurry or Gerald Weston, the epitaphs and accusations flow freely about other religions. Bob Thiel, the biggest fool the church has ever seen loves to label Christians not part of his cult as "so-called". We have all heard it for decades.
Now, Gerald Flurry of the Philadelphia Church of God claims they would NEVER lower themselves to THAT level!
Do We Attack Other Religions?A few of our critics have accused us of attacking other religions. But that is not true. Allow me to be a little more spiritual than usual and explain why.
We publish a thoroughly researched newsmagazine. Our writers are well educated and believe the Bible. They write biblically based news articles that occasionally will offend some religions. However, we don’t want to offend people any more than is absolutely necessary. We attack issues or false beliefs, but not people. As it has been said, we attack sin, not the sinner.
PCG employees of their rag are NOT well educated in the Bible. They are well educated in Armstrongism and its deviant branch of Flurryism. If Gerald Flurry has not said it then it is not the truth. Flurry has even rewritten Herbert Armstrong's writings to fit his current state of theological imbecility.
WE BELIEVE GOD IS GOING TO SAVE CHRISTIANS, MUSLIMS, BUDDHISTS, HINDUS, CATHOLICS, PROTESTANTS AND JEWS—ALL RELIGIOUS PEOPLE. BUT GOD IS GOING TO DO IT IN HIS WAY AND ACCORDING TO HIS TIME FRAME.
We proclaim a warning message in this magazine. God always warns the world before a great catastrophe. And we are facing the worst time of suffering ever on this Earth because of our wrong way of life. The need for changing human nature should be obvious to everybody. But it isn’t—yet. We must suffer until that lesson is learned. Much of our wrong way of living is religiously motivated. God gives mankind a choice. People can heed God’s message now and be protected from the coming holocaust. Or if they—collectively or individually—reject that warning, then they will suffer as never before.
The entire way of living in the PCG is religiously motivated in the wrong way! They have destroyed families and relationships due to their no-contact rules. Some of the most abusive ministers the church has ever seen are parked in the Philadelphia Church of God.
God uses that suffering to bring men to repentance—even if they die and must repent after they are resurrected from the dead.
If God uses that kind of suffering to bring people to repentance, why haven't the followers of Gerald Flurry, Dave Pack, and Bob Thiel repented of following the agents of devilish deception?
God has an inspiring plan to save most of humanity—even if people rebel now. Of course, that means they are going to suffer a great deal more. God is also going to save nonbelievers when they repent, and most of them will. The Bible teaches that there will always be a certain percentage of people who will reject God’s way of life.
Armstrongist leaders have led their members down the dark tunnel of suffering because they have rejected the New Covenant and rejected the Christ they claim they follow. They would rather prostitute themselves to the law than ever have to deal with grace, justification, and sanctification which are all basic Christian principles that Christians have understood for millennia.
Speaking about His Second Coming, Christ refers to only a “little flock” that obeys Him before He returns. But surely we don’t think a loving God will be content to convert only a “little flock”! Christ died for the whole world—not a little flock.
Christ converted only 120 people when He came the first time. That was His little flock. He actually spoke in parables to keep the masses from understanding! (Matthew 13).
If the fields are white for harvest it sure as hell isn't talking about a tiny remnant parked in some Church of God somewhere.
Will the rest of humanity, not called at Christ’s first coming, be lost forever? Obviously, Christ knew that was not the best time to call most of those people. But how could a God of love ever say they are lost when He hasn’t even called them or opened their minds spiritually?
Generally, people in the Old Testament didn’t even receive God’s Holy Spirit! Are they lost? Of course not. God has a time frame—a master plan to save humanity. People will come to know God for the first time when they are resurrected and given God’s Holy Spirit (Ezekiel 37). No persons or religions are consigned to gehenna fire unless they have already known God and rejected Him.
This is where Flurry says ex-members and those who followed the Worldwide Church of God during the changes are headed.
God is love. He is filled with mercy. He is also a God of judgment. But only that little flock is being judged today (1 Peter 4:17). The whole world is deceived (Revelation 12:9). That means the people of this world don’t yet know God. They will be judged after Christ returns.
Our message may offend some people today. But soon the world will see that it was God’s message of love. It was a part of His plan to save mankind.
Nothing that Flurry has to say is God's message. That is a plain simple fact.
Of course, there is one way only to save your sorry ass and that's to write in for a copy of the rewritten Mystery of the Ages. Forget the New Covenant and its message of grace, justification, and sanctification. Only MOA has the plan of salvation that humanity needs.
Write for our full-length book Mystery of the Ages to thoroughly understand this hugely inspiring subject.
Our petulant crybaby prophet is back again whining about how little respect he gets. Never has the church seen one of its leaders so disrespected and maligned as we have today in 2023 when it comes to the Great Bwana to Africa and his 100 Caucasians. Jesus weeps as he sits at the right hand of God in sorrow over the greatest prophet he has ever sent to the church. Even after inspiring the dreams of the Great Bwana Mzungu, the people of God refused to acknowledge him as a legitimate COG leader.
The Great Bwana Bob Mzungu Thiel, the Chief Overlooker of the improperly named "continuing" Church of God has an article up about Zephaniah, Church of God Outreach Ministry, and Prophecy.
Unable to do any real research on his own, the Great Overlooker has to use Herbert Armstrong to bolster his upcoming comment which will ultimately end up being all about himself, as usual.
The prophet Zephaniah lived and wrote about 630 B.C.” (Armstrong HW. The Proof of the Bible, 1958).
Let’s look at some of how Zephaniah’s book starts off:
1 The word of the Lord which came to Zephaniah the son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of Hezekiah, in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah.
2 “I will utterly consume everything
From the face of the land,”
Says the Lord;
3 ‘I will consume man and beast;
I will consume the birds of the heavens,
The fish of the sea,
And the stumbling blocks along with the wicked.
I will cut off man from the face of the land,”
Says the Lord.
4 “I will stretch out My hand against Judah,
And against all the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
I will cut off every trace of Baal from this place,
The names of the idolatrous priests with the pagan priests —
5 Those who worship the host of heaven on the housetops;
Those who worship and swear oaths by the Lord,
But who also swear by Milcom;
6 Those who have turned back from following the Lord,
And have not sought the Lord, nor inquired of Him.” (Zephaniah 1:1-6)
Jesus taught that His prophets were not heeded throughout history (e.g. Matthew 23:29-31; Luke 13:34, 16:31).
Strap yourselves in, here we go with the whining! He continues with a little blurb from the Temple Insitute and then lets his broken record skip again:
God had given Joseph dreams that his brothers would not heed. Furthermore, even though the situation in the world was bad, they were not taking the action they should have.
Something similar is happening now.
In Acts 2:17-18, the Apostle Peter said that God would provide dreams and prophets in the last days, but even most true Christians do not accept that. They are, at least figuratively, looking at themselves and not accepting what God is doing.
Hopefully, you believe the word of God and will act upon it!
So which Church of God prophet is receiving dreams from God? Is it Ron Weinland? Is it Dave Pack? Oh, wait! It's the Great Overlooker Bob! We should all be standing in awe of the Greatest man the church has ever seen! We should tremble on our knees at the mere mention of his name because HE and HE alone has been commissioned in these perilous end times with the job of unifying the church as one.
Now, there is something specifically for our time in the 21st century to consider as God inspired the Prophet Zephaniah to also write the following:
Although it has certain misunderstandings, the Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown Commentary realized that the gathering together was intended for a religious group or assembly:
2 Before the decree is issued, Or the day passes like chaff, Before the Lord’s fierce anger comes upon you, Before the day of the Lord’s anger comes upon you! (Zephaniah 2:2)
The gathering is to take place well before the day of the Lord (which happens about 2 1/2 years after the Great Tribulation of Matthew 24:21 begins) and before some type of decree is issued.
Who does God want to gather together?
The end time Christians.
Apparently, we need to add "The Great Unifier" to his name now, along with all of the other superficial titles he has taken up himself.
How do we know that Zephaniah 2:1-3 is related to Christians?
Because the decree is for the end time and because of what else God inspired Zephaniah to write:
3 Seek the Lord, all you meek of the earth, Who have upheld His justice. Seek righteousness, seek humility. (Zephaniah 2:3a)
Then the Great Overlooker kicked into high gear making many references about HIMSELF:
The above is a reference to Christians as they are to be the “meek of the earth” (Matthew 5:5) and to Philadelphians who “have upheld His justice. Seek righteousness, seek humility.” These are Philadelphian Christians who understand that church leaders need to have integrity and are willing to be humble enough to accept the authority of a church led by a low-level prophet in the absence of a clear apostle (cf. 1 Corinthians 12:28; Ephesians 4:11-15). They are humble enough to not think that they should remain ‘independent,’ as many who once were part of the old Worldwide Church of God, during this Laodicean time, have done.
Laodicea basically means “people decide” and most Christians in the end time have sadly decided not to follow true church governance for many reasons that they feel are justified, but that goes against what they biblically should do.
So there you have it boys and girls! Drop what you are doing and tell your current Church of God leader to pound sand because you are going to the ONE TRUE CHURCH, the MEEKEST church on earth! This is the ONLY church on earth that is seeking righteousness and humility! Never has the Church of God had a more humble church leader than we have in the Great Bwana Bob Mzungu Thiel! Bend your knees in his presence! But, most of all, the Great Bwana to Africa and his 100 Caucasians is a leader filled with INTEGRITY. Yes sir, Bob! Integrity hires scam translators, lets witchcraft be practiced, allows adultery in his leadership, lies about double blessings, and strikes out on his own in an act of rebellion against Rod Meredith. Yep, LOTS and LOTS of integrity there!
Then, in another act of frustration at constantly being rejected lashes out and labels everyone who dares to question him as Laodiceans who absolutely REFUSE to follow church government. Government, mind you, that he has in place in HIS little group, and not the government in any other COG's.
Now listen up all of you pitiful Laodiceans who REFUSE to follow the Great Bwana to Africa, your very salvation is at risk by not following him. You will NOT be a Philadelphia Christian. It is an impossibility in his eyes site. Only those in his church are TRUE Phialdphians.
And, there is something more that should make everyone tremble in their shoes, IF you're NOT part of the greatest Church of God in human history you will NOT know when it is time to flee to Petra or Pella where you will be privileged to listen to the Great Overlooker preach for 3 1/2 years - unless of of course, he is one of the two witless witnesses and is walking the streets of Jerusalem uttering prophecies or more likely bouncing in a chair in some dank hotel room with dirty curtains while thrusting his big fat Bible in the air as a final warning.
So who is going to utter this decree to gather together on one final entity to be trained? The Bob, of course..or one of his reps if he is doing important work elsewhere:
Put on your waders because the bullshit continues sot pile up:
5 Declare in Judah and proclaim in Jerusalem, and say:
“Blow the trumpet in the land;
Cry, ‘Gather together,’
And say, ‘Assemble yourselves,
And let us go into the fortified cities.’
6 Set up the standard toward Zion.
Take refuge! Do not delay!
For I will bring disaster from the north,
And great destruction.” (Jeremiah 4:5-6)
The decree to ‘gather together’ will be repeated in the area of Judah just before the time of great destruction.
Why a decree?
Apparently, to make it easier for people who read what Jesus said, to better understand that Matthew 24:15 and Mark 13:14 and Daniel 9:27b and Daniel 11:31 had been fulfilled.
By whom will the decree be made?
The Bible says:
7 Surely the Lord God does nothing,
Unless He reveals His secret to His servants the prophets.
8 A lion has roared!
Who will not fear?
The Lord God has spoken!
Who can but prophesy? (Amos 3:7-8)
The prophet may make the decree personally and/or pass it on to another authority in the church to make.
Who is the only Church of God in the 21st century to teach all of this?
The Continuing Church of God.
Liar!
Next, he pops his homeopathic cork over those who discount and mock his work! How dare they!
The Great Bwana Bob Mzungu Thiel expects to gather together all TRUE Christians BEFORE the decree to flee is issued. Again, if you are not part of his group you are too stupid to understand world events or prophecy. Such dumb Laodiceans!
If you are not with the group that is leading the final phase of the work will you not be able to flee if you wait until the last moment? While that may be remotely possible for some, remember that God inspired Zephaniah to admonish God’s people to ‘gather together…before the decree is issued.’
Most will discount this and many will scoff. Most COGs do not have anyone considered to be a prophet, and in those other than CCOG who claim to have prophets, those prophets have been proven to be false (e.g. PCG, CGPFKG, TPM). But the Bible says that there will be prophets in the last days and that God does communicate with them in dreams and/or watch.
Here is his final proof of how fabulous he is:
The old WCG taught that Zephaniah had to do with being protected, yet few teach that today. Since no later than 2007 I have written that Zephaniah had to do with Philadelphians being ‘gathered together’ so that they would be protected from the coming trial that will hit the earth.
We in the Continuing Church of God “have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts” (2 Peter 1:19, KJV).”
Should we not be “exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching” (Hebrews 10:25)?
We in the Continuing Church of God boldly teach the need for Philadelphians to be ‘gathering together’ today. Will you heed God’s instructions as the Prophet Zephaniah was inspired to write? Would you possibly like to be protected? If so, will you ‘gather together’?
One of the worst legacies of Armstrongism and particularly the Philadelphia Church of God cult mentality is the turmoil it created/creates in the family structure. For a group that claims to be all about family and their potential to be part of the "god" family, they sure can't act like godly family oriented creatures here on earth.
Once a member bought into the system and was fully "converted" they were expected to follow a certain set of rules kept hidden from potential and newer members. Since they were not "converted" and were part of an exclusive highly select few in the entire world, they were expected to keep themselves unspotted by the world around them. This includes avoiding unconverted worldly/pagan family members. God forbid if you spent a Christmas afternoon eating a nice dinner with family members, not of the church. Can there be a greater sin than that?
Gerald Flurry sadly has taken this a step further and actually forbade his members from association with former members and family members outside the cult. Whether it be your spouse, brother/sisters, mother/father, cousins, and friends, you are expected to cut them off.
It is amazing to watch how godless so many of these splinter cults of Armstrongism have degenerated into and yet they think they are God's highly chosen few.
My brother and I had a good relationship and spent time together on and off with our families back in the 90’s until he married a woman who grew up in WCG. After then everything changed between us. She basically put up strong boundaries as to when and how I could visit my brother, and we were never allowed to hang out unless she supervised over dinner at their house.
Then he stopped coming to birthday parties, no Christmas either, forget Easter while you’re at it. And he was no longer available on the phone while they had dinner. Forgot completely about reaching him from Friday to Sunday indefinitely, but then they would set a date that worked great for them and would invite me over for dinner.
Dinner always felt like pressure to practice perfect table manners or I would be frowned on. She actually told my mom to keep her elbows off the table. I could go on and on about all of the control tactics that woman played over the years but what’s the point? Now at last she’s got him moving to Oklahoma to join the big compound in Edmond, and my brother is gone for good, thanks to her and PCG.
All I can do is accept all of this and hope and pray for the Lord to open his spiritual eyes. Thanks for letting me vent. –[name withheld]
Thanksgiving is just a couple of days away and families are preparing feasts for themselves and friends. Traditionally in Church of Godland this was one of the "good" holidays that members could partake in along with the world. Yet, typical of the Church of God, far too many church leaders also turn this day into another Debbie-downer moment for members. It really irks the self-righteous butts of some church leaders if their members spend money on themselves and do not give it all to the church.
That brings us to the Philadelphia Church of God and their latest article on Thanksgiving. Here is how they titled their article: "Thanksgiving and Repentance". God forbid if you have one day out of the year to not worry about church leaders lording themselves over you or having to feel guilty for having a pleasant day unencumbered by flatulence from your church leaders.
The article starts off with the historical aspects of the day of Thanksgiving:
In a proclamation on April 30, 1863, for a nationwide Day of Fasting and Prayer, President Abraham Lincoln said, “It is the duty of nations as well as of men to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God, and to recognize the sublime truth announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord.”
Mr. Lincoln went on to say, “We have been the recipients of the choicest blessings of heaven. We have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power as no other nation has ever grown, but we have forgotten God.”
You can guess which part of this the PCG latches on to...REPENT!
The article continues:
America was richly blessed because of the patriarch Abraham’s faith and obedience. But President Lincoln recognized that America had forgotten God and needed to repent. What would he think of America today? Have we forgotten God? Does America need to repent?
How about you individually? Do you need to repent? What is repentance and how is it accomplished?
Before you overindulge in turkey and other goodies, make sure to put on sackcloth and cover yourself in ashes and get on your knees in fearful supplication, and then repent of seen and unseen sins. Make yourself as miserable as possible and THEN try and enjoy your meal all the while knowing in the back of your mind that you are a miserable worthless worm.
Romans 5:12 tells us that “all have sinned.” Jesus Christ is the only human to have lived a sinless life. That was necessary for Him to be the savior of mankind. But all other humans have sinned and do need to repent.
Christ teaches us in Mark 1:15 that we need to repent and believe the gospel. The gospel that Christ taught is the good news of the soon-coming Kingdom of God. Repentance is a requirement of being forgiven of sin. Without repentance, we cannot enter the Kingdom of God (Revelation 21:7-8).
Sin is what has to be repented of. Sin is the transgression of God’s law (1 John 3:4). Abraham Lincoln realized that the war-torn America of his time was sinning and needed to repent of breaking God’s law.
Historically for a nation to repent it was led to do that due to the preaching of real converted men of God. Today in COGland we have no one like that either leading a church or calling the nation to repentance. Why on God's green earth would ANYONE in the world listen to today's COG ministers? Why would they listen to Dave Pack, Bob Thiel, or Gerald Flurry? All three of these blubbering buffoons believe they will be one of the two witnesses or God's official mouthpiece ushering in the end times.
The article continues:
A major fruit of repentance for America was that it abolished slavery. It wasn’t done perfectly, but America changed its ways. The nation didn’t just feel bad about slavery, it abolished slavery. That is rare in history! It is something to be thankful for!
God wants us to repent so He can pour out His blessings on us. Christ makes an awesome promise to us in Matthew 6:33: “But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.”
If we repent and put God’s will first in our lives, Christ promises that all the blessings we could ever want will be added unto us. If the people of America—and all people—would truly repent and seek to do God’s will, God would free this world from its slavery to sin.
Godly men and women, who by their faith set an example draw people into the church and repentance. Where do we have such people today? Is there a COG leader or even a member who is so devoted to God that their calling shines bright in them, so much so that people desire to know what it is and a called to rely upon the Christ they follow? Why don't we have COG leaders who do that today?
The article ends with this:
This Thanksgiving, be sure to thank God for all His blessings and seek to do His will. Even if most people don’t repent today, you certainly can. And if you do begin to live by God’s laws and stay in a humble attitude of repentance, seeking to do God’s will, then “all these things shall be added unto you.”
To help you conquer sin, request our free booklet How to Be an Overcomer.
All of you law-breaking Laodiceans had better get your acts together and REPENT! To help you with that follow us as we follow Jesus write info our free booklet and learn how to be an overcomer. Like clockwork, Jesus gets shoved aside with another booklet about law-keeping.
This Thanksgiving do you and your family a favor. Turn off the broadcasts from your church leader and don't read any church literature. Spend this one day of the year giving thanks to be free from church encumbrances. Spend money on yourself and friends. Enjoy a fabulous feast of food and even watch or play some football. Be free for one day of the year.
